Chapter 6

Question 0

Estates

Answer 0

Social classes of France

Question 1

Old regime

Answer 1

Absolute monarchy of France

Question 2

Louis XVI

Answer 2

Idiot King, overspent

Question 3

Jacques necker

Answer 3

Financial advisor who was fired after he suggested taxing the first and second estates

Question 4

Deficit spending

Answer 4

Spent more than what the govt could collect

Question 5

Bastille

Answer 5

Symbolic political prison that was overtaken by an angry mob

Question 6

Third estate taxation

Answer 6

Poorest estate, only estate that had to pay taxes

Question 7

Estates general

Answer 7

Meting of all three estates

Question 8

Tennis court oath

Answer 8

Third estate sat Ina tennis court and wrote a constitution

Question 9

National Assembly

Answer 9

First cycle of the French Revolution

Question 10

Jacobins

Answer 10

Radicals of the third estate that didn’t think the Revolution had gone far enough

Question 11

Reign of terror

Answer 11

Cycle of the French Revolution where it was under mob rule

Question 12

Émigré

Answer 12

Nobles who fled to other countries in fear of angry mobs

Question 13

Declaration of pilnitz

Answer 13

Prussia and Austria’s declaration of war against France

Question 14

Deceleration of the rights of man

Answer 14

Men are born free and equal with rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. All citizens can contribute to law making, all persons are guaranteed equality before the law, unlawful arrest, freedom of speech, religion, and press.

Question 15

Robespierre

Answer 15

Leader of French Revolution ,”republic of virtue.”

Question 16

Directory

Answer 16

Third cycle of the French Revolution, dominated by the bourgeoisie, bicameral (two houses)

Question 17

Execution of the King/queen

Answer 17

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were executed by the guillotine due to treason when they tried to escape from prison

Question 18

Nationalism

Answer 18

Sense of pride in one’s nation

Question 19

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 19

Military genius who overthrew the directory, restoring order, from Corsica, exiled twice

Question 20

Plebiscite

Answer 20

A “popularity pole”

Question 21

Spanish nationalism

Answer 21

Kept Spain from being conquered by Napoleon

Question 22

Guerrilla warfare

Answer 22

Used by spaniards to resist Napoleon “duck and cover” (shoot and run type thing)

Question 23

Russian invasion (scorched earth)

Answer 23

When being invaded by Napoleon, Russian troops retreated to Moscow and burned their own crops and villages to the ground so that the French had no cover

Question 24

Hundred days

Answer 24

How long it took for Napoleon to escape Elba and return to France

Question 25

Civil constitution of the clergy

Answer 25

Declared pope had no power in France, people declared bishop

Question 26

Continental system

Answer 26

France made a blockade on imports to Britain to make them struggle economically

Question 27

Congress of Vienna

Answer 27

Purpose was to make sure monarchs stayed in power

Question 28

Code Napoleon

Answer 28

Equal treatment before law, abolished feudalism and serfdom, jury by trial

Question 29

Bank of France

Answer 29

Authorized improvements of infrastructure (bridges, harbors, canals)

Question 30

French public education

Answer 30

University if France, under state control

Question 31

Status of catholic chruch

Answer 31

Clergy were paid by the French govt, had to suffer all claims to land, freedom of religion (Protestants and Jews)